Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 01:20:52 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: This is intolerable: RE: www.openbsd.com animation (fwd) Message-ID: <7048.895047652@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 May 1998 18:57:17 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512185001.1102A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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> This is not advocacy -- this is garbage. This is the type of "effort" > that make's all of us look like pubescent idiots. Ummm. First off, there is absolutely no tie between these folks and us. They were also hosting www6.freebsd.org for awhile but after someone pointed the existance of www.openbsd.com out to us last night, that is no longer the case. I've also contacted the person directly responsible for putting up this page and asked them to take it down, a request which they politely refused, and that's about all I can do. To be honest, openbsd.com and openbsd.net should have been allocated by the OpenBSD folks if they didn't want something like this to happen since we all know how much of a free-for-all this whole registration business is. I failed to do the same thing for FreeBSD and just got lucky that freebsd.com and freebsd.net were registered by folks with our better interests at heart - it could just as easily have gone another way. Of course, the real evil here was in making the .org, .com and .net domains completely meaningless by letting anyone register whatever the hell they wanted in any of the 3, and if I were a more cynical man I would say that this was a deliberate move by the NIC to get everyone to pay 3 times for the same registration in order to keep people from launching hostile attacks against one's trademark. They've already stated that they won't remove domains due to trademark infringement which pretty much leaves it wide open for any unscrupulous person to do what was done to the OpenBSD Project. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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